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If an object travels at 0.4 cm per second, how many meters does it travel in 6 hours?
43.20

129.60

86.40

1.44

Sam's sports card collection contains football, baseball, and basketball cards. If the ratio of football to baseball cards is 3 to 2 and the ratio of baseball to basketball cards is 3 to 1, what is the ratio of football to basketball cards?
12:2

3:3

9:2

6:3

What is 2
8 55 6 16 8 1 55 6 1 16

11

4 ? 5

A student buys an algebra textbook for $18.30, a philosophy textbook for $17.41, and a dictionary for $13.84. What is the total cost of the books?
$50.44

$54.01

$48.66

$49.55

A machine in a factory has an error rate of 3 parts per 100. The machine normally runs 24 hours a day and produces 40 parts per hour. Yesterday the machine was shut down for 9 hours for maintenance. How many error-free parts did it produce yesterday?

600

582

45

99

Solutions

If an object travels at 0.4 cm per second, how many meters does it travel in 6 hours?
43.20

129.60

86.40

1.44

SOLUTION
Convert the object's speed from cm per second to m per hour:
0.4 cm s 60
s 60 min min hr 100 cm m

1440 cm 100 cm m
hr

= 14.40

m hr

Then multiply by the number of hours:

14.40

m hr

6hr = 86.40m

Sam's sports card collection contains football, baseball, and basketball cards. If the ratio of football to baseball cards is 3 to 2 and the ratio of baseball to basketball cards is 3 to 1, what is the ratio of football to basketball cards?
12:2

3:3

9:2

6:3

SOLUTION
The ratio of football cards to baseball cards is 3:2 and the ratio of baseball cards to basketball cards is 3:1. To solve this problem, we need the baseball card side of each ratio to be equal so we need to rewrite the ratios in terms of a common number of baseball cards. (Think of this like finding the common denominator when adding fractions.) The ratio of football to baseball cards can also be written as 9:6 and the ratio of baseball cards to basketball cards as 6:2 so the ratio of football cards to baskeball cards is 9:2.

2 What is 11

8 55 6 16 8 1 55 6 1 16

4 ? 5

SOLUTION
When multiplying fractions simply multiply the numerators (top numbers) and the denominators (bottom numbers) to get the result:
2 11

4 5

8 55

A student buys an algebra textbook for $18.30, a philosophy textbook for $17.41, and a dictionary for $13.84. What is the total cost of the books?
$50.44

$54.01

$48.66

$49.55

SOLUTION
To get this answer simply add up the costs of the textbooks. $18.30 + $17.41 + $13.84 = $49.55. A shortcut to quickly answering questions that involve adding decimals is to recognize that the right-most value in the answer (in this case 5) is found by summing the right-most values in the numbers you're adding. 0 + 1 + 4 = 5 which has a right-most value of 5 meaning that the answer will end in 5. Knowing this trick you can eliminate all answers that don't end in 5 which will often leave you with only one or two possible answers for the question.

A machine in a factory has an error rate of 3 parts per 100. The machine normally runs 24 hours a day and produces 40 parts per hour. Yesterday the machine was shut down for 9 hours for maintenance. How many error-free parts did it produce yesterday?

600

582

45

99

SOLUTION
The hourly error rate for this machine is the error rate in parts per 100 multiplied by the number of parts produced per hour: (3/100) x 40 = 0.03 x 40 = 1.2 errors per hour So, in an average hour, the machine will produce 40 - 1.2 = 38.8 error free parts. The machine ran for 24 - 9 = 15 hours yesterday so you would expect that 15 x 38.8 = 582 error free parts were produced yesterday.

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